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STATE OF FLORIDA. U..,M-A,.i 



OFFICE OF THE 



State Superintendent 
a: OF ;:^ 

Public Insturction^ 



Laws Relating to Schools Enacted by the Legis-' 
lature of 1901, with Explanations, 



TALLAHASSEE, FLA: 

I. B. HiLSON, State Printer. 

1901. 



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1^ LAWS ENACTED IN 1901, 



No digest of the school laws including the Acts of 1901 
will be issued this year, as has been customary after each 
Legislature. This is in the interest of economy, as there 
are 2,00(1 co])ies of the digest of 1800 on hand with but few 
changes made therein by the last Legislature, and as the 
appropriation for office printing is quite inadequate.lt is 
advisable then to preserve this ]iublication as by compari- 
son with the digest of school laws of 1899 the law now in 
force mav be readilv ascertained. 



(Jays. 



CiiAPTEu 4902— (Xo. 108.) 

AN ACT to Amend Sections 256 and 257, Revised Stat- 
utes. Relative to School Holidays and Lost Time, and 
to Prescribe a School Vacation. 

Be it Enacted lnj the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That Section 256. of the Revised Statutes, 
be and tlie same is hereby amended to read as follows: school hoU- 
Thanksgiving Day and Independence Day shall be ob- days 
served as school holidays. 

Sec. 2. That Section 257, of tlic Revised Statutes, be 
and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: A j^jonthiy re- 
teacher's monthly report shall in every case, except as port^for2o 
herein jirovided, be made for twenty days of actual teach 
ing, and sur-]i report must be filed with the County Super- 
intendent before Avarrant )r.ay 'te drawn for all or any 
part of such service; Provided. That a school holiday oc- 
curing in anv scholastic month may be counted as one of 
the twenty days taught ; and Provided, That when a Sft"onii' ^"^ 
school term may embrace a fraf^tional number of months, month. 
the last monthly rej-.ort shall be made for a fraction of a 
month, and })ayment shall be made for such fraction of a 
month. 

Sec! o. All public schools sliall observe the ])eriod 
from December 24 to January 1. 'ooth days inclusive, as vacation re- 
a vacation, and no one of these days shall be counted as Quired, 
taught in a teacher's monthly re]'ort. 

Approved :May 22, 1901. 



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Note. — Sections 1 and 2 of this Act take the place of Sections 
81 and 82 of the digest of school laws of 1899; their effect is to 
repeal all school holidays but two, and to abrogate the old way 
of making up lost time. 

Section 3 makes Christmas week a vacation and renders use- 
less regulation 13 on page 83 of the digest of 1899, 



ClTAPTER 4993— (Xo. 109.) 

AN ACT to Amend Section 13 of Chapter 4192, of the 
Laws of Florida, Entitled "An Act to Prescribe Rules 
and Regulations for Licensing Teachers; to Provide 
for Uniform Examinations ; to Secure Fairness in Ex- 
aminations and in Issuing Teachers' Certificates, and 
for Other Purposes." 

Be it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That Section 13 of Chapter 4192, of the 
Laws of Florida, entitled "an act to ijrescribe rules and 
regulations for licensing teachers ; to provide for uniform 
examinations; to secure fairness in examinations and 
in issuing teachers' certificates, and for other purposes," 
be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, 
to-wit : 

Sec. 13. All examination questions and answers pre- 
pared b}^ the applicants for certificates shall be filed in 
wfth coumy" the office of the County Superintendent and properly pre- 
Superintend- ggrvcd for at least one year, and in case any candidate is 
dissatisfied with the gradings of his or her papers, he or 
she may file a notice of appeal therefrom, together with 
a fee of five dollars, with the County Superintendent, who 
shall at once forward the papers of such applicant to the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Upon the 
receipt of such papers, the State Superintendent shall at 
once appoint a committee of three leading teachers of 
the State of Florida who shall, as soon as practicable, 
Appeal from regrade such papers and certify their acts to the County 
kig'commit-'^' Superintendent of the county from which the appeal 
tee. emanated, and these grades shall be final, and the County 

Superintendent shall issue certificates based upon them 
only. Such grading committee of appeals shall be paid 
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wliicli tlie apfjeal emanated the sum of one dollar and 
fifty cents each for each set of papers so graded. 
Approved May 22, 1901. 

Note. — The above Section 13 takes the place of Section 56, on 
page 26, of the School Law Digest. 




Chapter 4994— (No. 110.) 

AN ACT Making Appropriations for the Purchase by the 
State Board of Education of the Grounds, Buildings and 
Property of the Suth Florida Military and Educational 
Institute, and for the Enlargement of the Barracks and 
Laboratory, and to Provide for Heating the Buildings 
when Purchased. 

Be it Enacted hi/ the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That the sum of six thousand dollars be 
and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase of Appiopria- 

o 1 ^ -r-(i • 1 tion to Fur- 

the grounds, buildings and property of the South Florida chase plant 
Military and Educational Institute, and, the sum of fnsutute.^^ 
13.500.00 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the 
enlargement of the barracks and laboratory, and to pro- 
vide for heating the buildings when purchased; Provided. 
That no money shall be paid for said grounds, buildings 
and property until the title to the same shall be approved 
by the Attorney-General. 

Sec. 2. That the State Board of Education is hereby 
autliorized to purchase, for a sum not to exceed the state Board 
amount appropriated by this act for that purpose, all the o^ pu'Jchlse"" 
property, of the South Florida Military and Educational and improve. 
Institute for the State of Florida and wiien purchased 
to expend the amount appropriated by Section 1 of this 
act in enlarging the barracks and laboratory and provid- 
ing for heating the buildings. 

Sec. 3. That the Comptroller is hereby authorized to 
•draw Vv'arrants on the State Treasurer for the amounts ^iQ^ey. how 
appropriated by Section 1 of this act upon presentation paid, 
of proper vouchors approved by the State Board of Edu- 
cation. 

Sec. 4. That this act shall take effect immediately 
upon its passage and approval by the Governor. 

Approved May 29, 1901. 




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Chapter 4995— (No. 111.) 

AN ACT for the Relief of Aged Teachers 

Be it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida - 

Section 1. That froDi and after the passage of this 
act. any teacher in the State of Florida who has taught 
^ichwtt'hout ^^^^ whole or part of each year for twenty years prior to 
further exam- Janiiar}^ 1, lOOi), in the public or private schools of the 
State of Florida, and who presents satisfactory proof of 
^^uch fact to the County Superintendent of Public In- 
struction of the county of which he is a resident, shall 
be entitled to receive from said County Superintendent 
a certjlicate of sucli fact, v/hich said certificate shall en- 
title said teacher to teacJi in any public school in said 
county in the primary and intermediate grades; Provided, 
A majority of the patrons of such school shall select said 
certificate holder as such teacher; and no further exami- 
nation of such teacher shall be necessary or required 
hereafter ; Provided, That said teacher shall have secured 
. at least one certificate under the present uniform examina- 
tion law of this State and shall not teach in any grade 
higher than that called for in the certificate. 

Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 

Approved May 30, 1901. 

Note. — County Superintendents will note carefully and insist 
that each one of the seven conditions is strictly complied with 
before allowing anyone to teach who does not hold a regular 
certificate unimpaired by suspension, revocation or limitation, 
to-wit: (1) The teacher must have taught the whole or a part 
of each of the twenty years prior to January 1, 1900; (2) must 
have taught all this time in the public or private schools of 
Florida; (3) must make to the County Superintendent of the 
county of his residence satisfactory proof of the above facts; (4) 
is limited to teach only in the primary and intermediate grades 
in the county of his residence; (5) a majority of the patrons 
must select such person as teacher; (6) must present satisfac- 
tory proof that he has taken at least one regular certificate in 
a uniform examination of this State since January, 1894; (7) is 
prohibited from teaching a higher grade school than the certifi- 
cate taken in the uniform examination. 



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Chapter 4996— (No. 112.) 

AN ACT Requiring Teachers' Summer Schools and Mak- 
ing Appropriations. Therefor. 

Whereas, The value of the public schools is measured 
by the character of the teachers employed ; and 

Whereas, Teachers' Summer Schools are recognized in 
all States as a most potent means of improving the work 
of teachers, by awakening greater interest and enthusi- Preamble, 
asm in their work and improving their scholarship and 
methods of instruction ; and, 

Whereas, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, agent of the Peabody 
Fund, has agreed to continue the donation of twelve hun- 
dred dollars (|1,200.00) per annum for Teachers' Summer Peabody 
Schools, provided the Legislature will show its appreci- tionai!^°" 
ation of the gift by supplementing it with a larger sum ; 
therefore, 

Be it Enacted hi/ the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That the sum of two thousand dollars for 
the year 1901, and two thousand dollars for the year 
1902, be and the same is hereby appropriated for th^ pur- Appropria- 
pose of holding such Teachers' Summer Schools at such ye^rV"^ *^° 
times and places as the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction may designate, and as the fund appropriated 
and that donated from the Peabody Fund will sustain. 

Sec. 2. That impartial provision shall be made for the 
instruction of teachers of both races in these Summer 
Schools, and the sums appropriated in the foregoing 
section shall be subject to the order of the State Superin- ^"g^ \^e^^ 
tendent of Public Instruction, and paid upon the requisi- taught ; 
tion of said Superintendent upon the Comptroller out 
of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction to submit a report to the next 
General Assembly showing the number and location of 
such schools conducted, the number of teachers attend- stateSuper- 
ing each by race and sex, the conductors of each school mak" report, 
with number of days service rendered by each and the 
amount paid each; and submit vouchers for every dollar 
paid out from this fund. 



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Sec. 4. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby re- 
pealed. 



Approved May 30, 1901. 



Chapter 4997— (No. 113.) I 

AN ACT to Establish Scholarships in the State Normal 
School at DeFuniak Springs, and to Make Appropria- 
tions Therefor. 

Whereas, The greatest educational need of the State is 
more professionally trainied teachers, and investment 
therein will yield the greatest possible returns; and the 
State is sustaining a scholarship in a military school for 
Preamble. young men from each county at a cost of $200.00 each 
per annum while no such privilege is extended which is 
available for young women of the State, though a large 
majority of the teachers of the State are women, and 
would gladly improve opportunities of better preparing 
themselves for this profession if like advantages of free 
board were offered them; therefore, 

Be it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida. 

Section 1. That the sum of fortj^-five hundred dollars 
Appropi-ia- fop (..^eh of the years beginning Julv 1, 1901, and 1902, 

tions ' Ode'. ' 

be and the same is hereby appropriated from any funds 
?hiDfor*each ^^^ ^^'<^ treasury not otherwise appropriated, to establish 
county and uiaintain one scholarship for each county in the State 

Normal School at DeFuniak Springs. 

Sec. 2. That the County Superintendent and School 

how'dwarded -Board of each county be required to select by competitive 

examination before the first day of August, 1901, and 

within one month of any time thereafter that the principal 

shall give notice of a vacancy, a young man or a young 

Dulles of wonum between the ages of eis:hteen and twenty-five, of 

of Educa'tFon. good moral character and competent to meet the entrance 

requirements prescribed for said Normal School by the 

State Board of Education, and who proposes to make 

teaching a profession, and such person shall receive the 

sum of twelve and one-half dollars (|12.50) for board and 

other expenses for each of the eight months he or she 



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may attend said school, this amount to be paid upon the 
certificate and requisition of the principal of the school 
under such regulations as may be required by the State 
Board of Education. 

Sec. 3. That this scholarship shall be valid for two 
years, and shall be given to such persons as manifest Teach four 

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adaptability for teaching and sign an agreement to each fund. 
for at least four years in this State or to refund the 
money received from such scholarship. 

Sec. 4. That in case the scholarship of any county 
S'hall not be filled by the first day of September, the prin- Scholarships 
cipal of the school shall notify the State Superintendent, Td by state 
who shall hold a competitive examination open to the Supermtend- 
State at large, and award the vacant scholarships for all 
counties not availing thems*^^^-es of the benefits of this 
act. 

Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
act are hereby repealed. 

Approved May 28, 1901. 

Note. — The following regulations in accordance with Sec. 2 
of this Act were adopted by the State Board of Education July 
5, 1901. 

Regulation 1. The Principal of the State Normal School shall 
give ample notice to all County Superintendents of the State 
of a uniform date for holding competitive examinations for 
scholarships in said school. Each Superintendent in turn shall 
advertise the time, place and purpose of said examination in a 
newspaper having the largest circulation in the county, or by 
posting at five conspicuous places in different parts of the county, 
for at least two weeks prior to said examination. 

Reg. 2. Questions for said competitive examinations shall 
be uniform for all counties, shall be prepared by the Principal 
of the Normal School and by him sent to County Superintend- 
ents under seal, and shall not be opened except in the presence 
of the examinees at the time and place advertised for the ex- 
amination. All instructions for the conduct of the examination 
sent by the Principal with the questions must be rigidly com- 
plied with. 

Reg. 3. The said examination questions shall embrace all 
the subjects, omitting pedagogy, required for a teacher's third 
grade certificate in this State, and the answers shall be graded 
by the County Superintendent and School Board, or by persons 
appointed by them. 

Reg. 4. The scholarship shall be awarded to that applicant 



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between 18 and 25 years of age whose examination grades, moral 
character, habits, physical condition and manifest adaptability 
for teaching indicate the greatest probability of success as a 
teacher. Persons may be excluded from the competition whose 
known habits, physical or moral defects will incapacitate them 
as successful teachers or seriously interfere with their becoming 
such. 

Reg. 5. No person is entitled to enter thp State Normal 
School on scholarship appointment or otherwise, whose scholar- 
ship qualifications fall below the requirements for a teacher's 
third grade certificate in this State. In case there shall be only 
one applicant in a county for scholarship appointment, and he 
should hold a teacher's legal certificate (other than a temporary) 
Issued in this State, the scholarship may be awarded without 
an examination. 

Reg. 6. Before the first payment of scholarship money shall 
be made to any appointee he shall sign and file with the Prin- 
cipal of the State Normal School, to be by him filed in the 
ofiice of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a written 
agreement binding himself or herself to teach in the public 
schools of this State, health permitting, for at least four years 
of the six years next succeeding the expiration of the scholarship, 
or to refund to the State the money received from said scholar- 
ship. 

Reg. 7. Any scholarship student entering after the begin- 
ning, or leaving before the close of a school month, or being 
irregular in attendance without sufiicient excuse, shall be paid 
scholarship allowance only for the portion of such month he or 
she attended the school. 

Reg. 8. Scholarship appointees shall be subject to all rules 
and regulations of the State Normal School as other students, 
and scholarships may be cancelled by the State Board of Edu- 
cation for irregular attendance, deficiency in school work, or 
tor other sufiicient reason. 

Reg. 9. That in case there shall be no applicant for scholarship 
appointment in any county at the time advertised for the 
competitive examination, or if for any cause the scholarship shall 
not be awarded as prescribed by law and the regulations of this 
Board, there shall be held another examination in said counties 
before September 1st at the time designated by the principal of 
the State Normal School. Said examination shall be advertised 
as widely as possible ana be conducted in accordance with the 
regulations prescribed for the first examination. 

Adopted Aug. 14, 1901. 

Reg. 10. That any person to whom a scholarship has been 
awarded must enter the Normal School at the opening of the 
term unless providentially hindered, or forfeit the scholarship. 

Adopted Aug. 14, 1901. 



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Chapter 4998— (No. 114.) 
AN ACT to Assist in Maintaining an Industrial and a 
Normal Department in the St. Petersburg Normal and 
Industiial School, to Create Scholarships Therein, 
and to Make Appropriations Therefor. 

Be it Enacted hy the Legiskiture of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That the sum of five thousand dollars for 
each of the school years beginning July 1, 1901, and July Appropria- 
1, 1902, be and the same is hereby appropriated to assist oft\vo°ye1frs. 
in maintaining an Industrial and a Normal Department 
in the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School. 

Sec. 2. That an Industrial and a Normal Department Free scholar- 
be maintained for not less than eight months in said payments "^^ 
school for each year, in all the departments of which one 
person for each member of the State Legislature shall be 
entitled to free instruction. Each Senator and each 
member of the House of Representatives shall be entitled 
to select one such person under such regulations and re- 
strictions as shall be prescribed by the State Board of Ed- 
ucation ; Provided, That each such appointee shall be be- 
tween the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years ; Provided, Normal De- 
That free instruction shall be furnished in the Normal fo^Xteach-'^ 
Department to all students of thi^ State who are pre- ers, 
paring for teaching. 

Sec. 3. That said Normal and Industrial Departments Subject to 
shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be state Board. 
approved by the State Board of Education. 



By whom se ] 
lected. 



Age, 



Sec. 4. That the Comptroller shall issue his warrants 
for the amounts herein appropriated upon such requisi- 
tions as shall be made by the Board of Local Trustees of 
said school and approved by the State Board of Educa- 
tion ; said warrants to be payable out of any funds in the 
treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
are hereby repealed. 



Money, how 
paid. 



Approved May 31, 



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Note. — Appointments by mefnbers of the Legislature must con- 
form to such regulations and restrictions as may be prescribed 




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by the State Board of Education; the appointees must be be- 
tween 16 and 25 years of age, and are entitled to free instruc- 
tion in the Industrial and all other Departments. Any student 
of the State preparing to teach is entitled to free instruction in 
the Normal Department. 

The regulations of the State Board of Education relative to 
appointments and as approved for the conduct of the Normal 
and Industrial Departments may be obtained by addressing the 
Principal of the School. 



State school 
lands, how 
deeded, 



Prior convey- 
ances made 
valid. 



Chapter 4999— (No. 115.) 

AN ACT Prescribing ithe Mode of Conveying Lands 
Granted to or Held by the State for Educational 
Purposes and Confirming and Validating Conveyances 
of such Lands Heretofore Made. 
Be it Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
Section 1. The title to all lands granted to or held by 
the State for educational purposes shall be conveyed by 
deed executed by the members of the State Board of Ed- 
ucation of Florida, with an impression of the seal of the 
"Department of Agriculture of the State of Florida" 
thereon, attested by the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
and no other witnesses to the execution thereof shall be 
required to entitle the same to record and to be received 
in evidence in all courts and judicial proceedings. 

Sec. 2. All deeds conveying lands granted to or held by 
the State for educational purposes heretofore executed by 
the members of the State Board of Education of Florida 
are hereby confirmed and declared to be valid and binding 
as conveyances of the title to such lands. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage and 
approval by the Governor. 

Approved May 22, 1901. 



Chapter 5000— (No. IIG.) 

AN ACT to Repeal Sections 244 and 245 of the Revised 
Statutes of the State of Florida; Chapters 4194 and 
4197, Session Laws of 1893; Chapters 4336 and 4337, 
Session Laws of 1895, Relating to School Sub-districts 
and the Levving of School District Tax. 



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Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That Sections 244 and 245 of the Revised 
Statutes of the State of Florida ; Chapters 4194 and 4197, 
Session Laws of 1893; Chapters 4336 and 4337, Session 
Laws of 1895, be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Approved May 31, 1901. 

Note. — The effect of this Act is to repeal all Sub-District Laws 
except Chapter 4678, approved June 5, 1899, found on page 79, 
or as codified in Sections 83-98, in the digest of the school laws 
of 1899. 

This being now the only law relative to Special Tax Schools 
and made operative by amendments to the General Revenue Law, 
no bonds are required of Trustees. The Trustees should im- 
mediately turn over all funds to the County Treasurer, taking 
his receipt for the same. The County Treasurer is made 
responsible on his official bond for all such funds and should open 
a special account with each Special Tax School District in his 
county, ,and pay out said funds only upon warrant of the County 
Board of Public Instruction drawn upon the fund of a specific 
opecial Tax School District. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Wm n. sheats, 

state Superintendent Public Instruct;ion. 
Tallahassee, Fla., July 1, 1901. 



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